GP visits for mental health services double
One in 10 access Medicare services, with $400 spent per person a year: AIHW report
One in 10 Australians accessed Medicare-subsidised mental health services in the past year, with visits to GPs doubling in a decade, figures show.
GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists and other allied health professionals provided more than 12 million Medicare-subsided mental health services in 2017/18.
